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Evening Snow at Kambara (number sixteen of the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido)

1833

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重

(Japanese, 1797–1858)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
color woodblock print
Measurements
Sheet: 22.6 x 35.5 cm (8 7/8 x 14 in.)
Credit Line
The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.317
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

The coastal town of Kambara rarely experiences snowfall. Illustrating falling snow is particularly suited to woodblock prints. The snowflakes are created by carving their shapes out of the woodblock. When the surface of the block is inked and printed, the carved areas are represented by the unprinted white paper. This print may be the first by Hiroshige to depict falling snow.
Horizontally oriented print depicting three people in a snowy landscape with mountains on the left into which a row of houses extends. In color while the landscape is in black in white, a person wearing dark blue faces our left, a peach pink umbrella closed over their head. Facing our right, two other people walk the opposite direction, with light skin tones, wearing wide pointed hats, and slumping forward in white, peach, and blue garments.

Evening Snow at Kambara (number sixteen of the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido)

1833

Utagawa Hiroshige

(Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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